Date: June 2020

Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

Medium: Video (color, sound)

Display and Exhibition History:

• 2020 - A Night of Art and Disco: Art Showcase and Digital Disco, Chicago IL. USA

• 2022 - Juneteenth: Black Queer Futures, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL. USA

• 2022 - Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR. USA

“WORLDBUILD WITH ME is Gardner’s entry into video collage, expressing a curatorial approach to gathering and arranging movement, sounds, textures, and images that articulate his interest in unrefined joy. Gardner began working on WORLDBUILD WITH ME in hopes of submitting the work to a dance music festival, but it took a different shape after the uprisings and protests began in June 2020. Drawing among everything from Blaxploitation movies to iconic clips from balls, Gardner has assembled found footage and self-shot video in order to build an Afrofuturist invitation into his world.” - Ella Ray

See below for additional images of this piece on display.

*header image featuring Mackenzi Bell-Nugent*